Jordan Belfort tried to defraud anyone he could call out of the phone book.

That was the consensus of several players ranging from regulators to prosecutors to his own defense attorney that were part of the case against the former stockbroker who is depicted in the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” by actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

If you are looking to fantasize about Wall Street and its wild and wicked habits from an era long gone, this movie is for you.

Director Martin Scorsese’s almost three-hour movie is based on a true story about the rise and very hard fall of Jordan Belfort, played masterfully by Leonardo DiCaprio.

It starts with Belfort, a young ambitious man hell-bent on getting rich on Wall Street. He quickly turns into a sleazy stock-broker bilking investors of millions and, naturally, ends up the target of a criminal investigation by the FBI.

The movie doesn’t miss an opportunity to indulge in drawn-out, drunken sex-scenes with wives, girlfriends and hookers, rampant abuse of every illegal substance you can think of and the generally over-the-top behavior Belfort and his friends apparently loved.

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